[mythtv-users] banners/coverart/fanart/etc. cleanup

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Monday, November 16, 2015, 6:59:38 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> >> Hoi Bill,
> >>
> >> Monday, November 16, 2015, 6:24:02 PM, you wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 11/10/2015 11:46 AM, Kevin Calvert wrote:
> >> >> Is there any known way to go about cleaning up this sort of artwork
> for
> >> >> since deleted movies/tv shows?
> >>
> >> > Mine's building up too, but I've chosen to ignore it :(, because I
> >> > think the answer is: no.
> >>
> >> > It's easy enough to develop a list of current recording/video artwork
> >> > with the Services API (and perhaps with Perl|Python bindings/SQL) but
> >> > I don't see a safe way to clear out the recordedartwork table entries.
> >>
> >> > What I don't know is what happens if a new recording is made of a
> >> > program that already has an entry in recordedartwork. You'd need
> >> > to test what happens if the inetref/season exists in the table
> >> > and there're no files. Would mythmetadatalookup ignore the old
> >> > filenames in the table and re-all the actual images?
> >>
> >> My experience is a bit of both. It won't replace older generic artwork
> >> with newer, but it will fetch episode/season specific artwork.
> >>
> >> I also think that you can safely clear the artwork directory. I think
> >> that whenever it can't find something, it will download again. But you
> >> can easily test by moving the artwork for one movie out of the
> >> directory and then go in the frontend to that movie and see what
> >> happens. It will however take a few minutes before any new artwork
> >> shows and you might have to restart the frontend ones. If it doesn't
> >> work, you can move it back.
> >>
> >> Tot mails,
> >>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
> >>
>
> > Is it possible that "find_orphans.py"  could be of some assistance here?
> My
> > limited experience with it IIRC it found and shed some art work, probably
> > from lost recordings, don't know about deleted recordings.
>
> Was that artwork or just the previews in the recording directories?
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
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I really can't be certain now, I just ran the script again, but didn't get
option "4" , delete orphaned artwork I think it was.
Curiously enough I did find five orphaned recordings, and I have no idea
how they would have been orphaned?
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